Pudgy Penguins’ native token slipped on Friday regardless of the undertaking’s new title rating amongst Apple’s prime downloads.
The PENGU (PENGU) token fell by practically 4% on Friday, following the launch of Pudgy Occasion, a battle royale sport launched on Android and iOS, regardless of the sport recording over 50,000 downloads on the Google Play retailer and touchdown within the prime 10 most downloaded video games on Apple’s App Retailer.
Pudgy Penguins is a well-liked non-fungible token (NFT) undertaking within the crypto house. The undertaking dietary supplements its onchain digital presence with buying and selling playing cards, plushy penguin-themed toys, video video games and different bodily merchandise.
In accordance with CoinMarketCap, the token declined by over 20% over the previous 30 days.
The worth retrace comes amid a broader downturn within the NFT market, which noticed different blue-chip NFT initiatives reminiscent of Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC) and Doodles submit double-digit losses in August.
Regardless of worth fluctuations, Pudgy Penguins continues to be a cultural phenomenon inside the crypto group and showcases mass attraction to non-crypto customers by way of the undertaking’s give attention to bodily merchandise, drawing each adults and kids to the franchise.
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NFT markets endure as Ethereum retraces current positive factors
The Ethereum community hosts probably the most NFT buying and selling exercise of any blockchain ecosystem, and, following Ether’s (ETH) current decline from an all-time excessive of about $4,957, the NFT market took successful.
CryptoPunks, a blue-chip NFT assortment of pixelated characters typically used as profile footage (PFPs) by crypto trade executives and traders, demonstrated extra resilience, rising by practically 3% throughout August, in accordance with NFTPriceFloor.
In the meantime, BAYC recorded losses of over 11% in August, and Pudgy Penguins recorded a decline of over 20% in US greenback phrases.
The NFT market cap hit $9.3 billion at the start of August throughout Ethereum’s historic bull rally to new all-time highs. Nevertheless, the NFT market cap has since dropped to simply $7.4 billion on the time of this writing and continues to correlate with ETH costs.
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